R Tutorial

An introduction to R

Introduction

This tutorial is will introduce the reader to , a free, open-source statistical computing environment often used with RStudio, a integrated development environment for .

R Project Logo

Download

Download at https://www.r-project.org/

Download RStudio at https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

Calculator

can be used as a super awesome calculator

# 5 + 3 = 8
5 + 3

## [1] 8

# 24 / (1 + 2) = 8
24 / (1 + 2)

## [1] 8

# 2 * 2 * 2 = 8
2^3

## [1] 8

# 8 * 8 = 64
sqrt(64)

## [1] 8

# -log10(0.05 / 5000000) = 8
-log10(0.05 / 5000000)

## [1] 8

Functions

has many useful built in functions

1:10

##  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

as.character(1:10)

##  [1] "1"  "2"  "3"  "4"  "5"  "6"  "7"  "8"  "9"  "10"

rep(1:2, times = 5)

##  [1] 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2

rep(1:5, times = 2)

##  [1] 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5

rep(1:5, each = 2)

##  [1] 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5

rep(1:5, length.out = 7)

## [1] 1 2 3 4 5 1 2

seq(5, 50, by = 5)

##  [1]  5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

seq(5, 50, length.out = 5)

## [1]  5.00 16.25 27.50 38.75 50.00

paste(1:10, 20:30, sep = "-")

##  [1] "1-20"  "2-21"  "3-22"  "4-23"  "5-24"  "6-25"  "7-26"  "8-27"  "9-28"  "10-29" "1-30"

paste(1:10, collapse = "-")

## [1] "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10"

paste0("x", 1:10)

##  [1] "x1"  "x2"  "x3"  "x4"  "x5"  "x6"  "x7"  "x8"  "x9"  "x10"

min(1:10)

## [1] 1

max(1:10)

## [1] 10

range(1:10)

## [1]  1 10

mean(1:10)

## [1] 5.5

sd(1:10)

## [1] 3.02765

Custom Functions

Users can also create their own functions

customFunction1 <- function(x, y) {
  z <- 100 * x / (x + y)
  paste(z, "%")
}
customFunction1(x = 10, y = 90)

## [1] "10 %"

customFunction2 <- function(x) {
  mymin <- mean(x - sd(x))
  mymax <- mean(x) + sd(x)
  print(paste("Min =", mymin))
  print(paste("Max =", mymax))
}
customFunction2(x = 1:10)

## [1] "Min = 2.47234964590251"
## [1] "Max = 8.52765035409749"

`for` loops and `if` `else` statements

xx <- NULL #creates and empty object
for(i in 1:10) {
  xx[i] <- i*3
}
xx

##  [1]  3  6  9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30

xx %% 2 #gives the remainder when divided by 2

##  [1] 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

for(i in 1:length(xx)) {
  if((xx[i] %% 2) == 0) {
    print(paste(xx[i],"is Even"))
  } else { 
      print(paste(xx[i],"is Odd")) 
    }
}

## [1] "3 is Odd"
## [1] "6 is Even"
## [1] "9 is Odd"
## [1] "12 is Even"
## [1] "15 is Odd"
## [1] "18 is Even"
## [1] "21 is Odd"
## [1] "24 is Even"
## [1] "27 is Odd"
## [1] "30 is Even"

# or
ifelse(xx %% 2 == 0, "Even", "Odd")

##  [1] "Odd"  "Even" "Odd"  "Even" "Odd"  "Even" "Odd"  "Even" "Odd"  "Even"

paste(xx, ifelse(xx %% 2 == 0, "is Even", "is Odd"))

##  [1] "3 is Odd"   "6 is Even"  "9 is Odd"   "12 is Even" "15 is Odd"  "18 is Even" "21 is Odd"  "24 is Even" "27 is Odd"  "30 is Even"

Objects

Information can be stored in user defined objects, in multiple forms:

c(): a string of values
matrix(): a two dimensional matrix in one format
data.frame(): a two dimensional matrix where each column can be a different format
list():

A string…

xc <- 1:10
xc

##  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

xc <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
xc

##  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

A matrix…

xm <- matrix(1:100, nrow = 10, ncol = 10, byrow = T)
xm

##       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
##  [1,]    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10
##  [2,]   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19    20
##  [3,]   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29    30
##  [4,]   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39    40
##  [5,]   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49    50
##  [6,]   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59    60
##  [7,]   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69    70
##  [8,]   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79    80
##  [9,]   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89    90
## [10,]   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100

xm <- matrix(1:100, nrow = 10, ncol = 10, byrow = F)
xm

##       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
##  [1,]    1   11   21   31   41   51   61   71   81    91
##  [2,]    2   12   22   32   42   52   62   72   82    92
##  [3,]    3   13   23   33   43   53   63   73   83    93
##  [4,]    4   14   24   34   44   54   64   74   84    94
##  [5,]    5   15   25   35   45   55   65   75   85    95
##  [6,]    6   16   26   36   46   56   66   76   86    96
##  [7,]    7   17   27   37   47   57   67   77   87    97
##  [8,]    8   18   28   38   48   58   68   78   88    98
##  [9,]    9   19   29   39   49   59   69   79   89    99
## [10,]   10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90   100

A data frame…

xd <- data.frame(
  x1 = c("aa","bb","cc","dd","ee",
         "ff","gg","hh","ii","jj"),
  x2 = 1:10,
  x3 = c(1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3),
  x4 = rep(c(1,2), times = 5),
  x5 = rep(1:5, times = 2),
  x6 = rep(1:5, each = 2),
  x7 = seq(5, 50, by = 5),
  x8 = log10(1:10),
  x9 = (1:10)^3,
  x10 = c(T,T,T,F,F,T,T,F,F,F)
)
xd

##    x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7        x8   x9   x10
## 1  aa  1  1  1  1  1  5 0.0000000    1  TRUE
## 2  bb  2  1  2  2  1 10 0.3010300    8  TRUE
## 3  cc  3  1  1  3  2 15 0.4771213   27  TRUE
## 4  dd  4  1  2  4  2 20 0.6020600   64 FALSE
## 5  ee  5  1  1  5  3 25 0.6989700  125 FALSE
## 6  ff  6  2  2  1  3 30 0.7781513  216  TRUE
## 7  gg  7  2  1  2  4 35 0.8450980  343  TRUE
## 8  hh  8  2  2  3  4 40 0.9030900  512 FALSE
## 9  ii  9  3  1  4  5 45 0.9542425  729 FALSE
## 10 jj 10  3  2  5  5 50 1.0000000 1000 FALSE

A list…

xl <- list(xc, xm, xd)
xl[[1]]

##  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

xl[[2]]

##       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
##  [1,]    1   11   21   31   41   51   61   71   81    91
##  [2,]    2   12   22   32   42   52   62   72   82    92
##  [3,]    3   13   23   33   43   53   63   73   83    93
##  [4,]    4   14   24   34   44   54   64   74   84    94
##  [5,]    5   15   25   35   45   55   65   75   85    95
##  [6,]    6   16   26   36   46   56   66   76   86    96
##  [7,]    7   17   27   37   47   57   67   77   87    97
##  [8,]    8   18   28   38   48   58   68   78   88    98
##  [9,]    9   19   29   39   49   59   69   79   89    99
## [10,]   10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90   100

xl[[3]]

##    x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7        x8   x9   x10
## 1  aa  1  1  1  1  1  5 0.0000000    1  TRUE
## 2  bb  2  1  2  2  1 10 0.3010300    8  TRUE
## 3  cc  3  1  1  3  2 15 0.4771213   27  TRUE
## 4  dd  4  1  2  4  2 20 0.6020600   64 FALSE
## 5  ee  5  1  1  5  3 25 0.6989700  125 FALSE
## 6  ff  6  2  2  1  3 30 0.7781513  216  TRUE
## 7  gg  7  2  1  2  4 35 0.8450980  343  TRUE
## 8  hh  8  2  2  3  4 40 0.9030900  512 FALSE
## 9  ii  9  3  1  4  5 45 0.9542425  729 FALSE
## 10 jj 10  3  2  5  5 50 1.0000000 1000 FALSE

Selecting Data

xc[5] # 5th element in xc

## [1] 5

xd$x3[5] # 5th element in col "x3"

## [1] 1

xd[5,"x3"] # row 5, col "x3"

## [1] 1

xd$x3 # all of col "x3"

##  [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

xd[,"x3"] # all rows, col "x3"

##  [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

xd[3,] # row 3, all cols

##   x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7        x8 x9  x10
## 3 cc  3  1  1  3  2 15 0.4771213 27 TRUE

xd[c(2,4),c("x4","x5")] # rows 2 & 4, cols "x4" & "x5"

##   x4 x5
## 2  2  2
## 4  2  4

xl[[3]]$x1 # 3rd object in the list, col "x1

##  [1] "aa" "bb" "cc" "dd" "ee" "ff" "gg" "hh" "ii" "jj"

regexpr

xx <- data.frame(Name = c("Item 1 (detail 1)",
                          "Item 20 (detail 20)",
                          "Item 300 (detail 300)"),
                 Item = NA,
                 Detail = NA)
xx$Detail <- substr(xx$Name, regexpr("\\(", xx$Name)+1, regexpr("\\)", xx$Name)-1)
xx$Item <- substr(xx$Name, 1, regexpr("\\(", xx$Name)-2)
xx

##                    Name     Item     Detail
## 1     Item 1 (detail 1)   Item 1   detail 1
## 2   Item 20 (detail 20)  Item 20  detail 20
## 3 Item 300 (detail 300) Item 300 detail 300

Data Formats

Data can also be saved in many formats:

numeric
integer
character
factor
logical

xd$x3 <- as.character(xd$x3)
xd$x3

##  [1] "1" "1" "1" "1" "1" "2" "2" "2" "3" "3"

xd$x3 <- as.numeric(xd$x3)
xd$x3

##  [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

xd$x3 <- as.factor(xd$x3)
xd$x3

##  [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3
## Levels: 1 2 3

xd$x3 <- factor(xd$x3, levels = c("3","2","1"))
xd$x3

##  [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3
## Levels: 3 2 1

xd$x10

##  [1]  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE

as.numeric(xd$x10) # TRUE = 1, FALSE = 0

##  [1] 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0

sum(xd$x10)

## [1] 5

Internal structure of an object can be checked with str()

str(xc) # c()

##  num [1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

str(xm) # matrix()

##  int [1:10, 1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...

str(xd) # data.frame()

## 'data.frame':    10 obs. of  10 variables:
##  $ x1 : chr  "aa" "bb" "cc" "dd" ...
##  $ x2 : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
##  $ x3 : Factor w/ 3 levels "3","2","1": 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1
##  $ x4 : num  1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
##  $ x5 : int  1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
##  $ x6 : int  1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5
##  $ x7 : num  5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
##  $ x8 : num  0 0.301 0.477 0.602 0.699 ...
##  $ x9 : num  1 8 27 64 125 216 343 512 729 1000
##  $ x10: logi  TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE ...

str(xl) # list()

## List of 3
##  $ : num [1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
##  $ : int [1:10, 1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
##  $ :'data.frame':    10 obs. of  10 variables:
##   ..$ x1 : chr [1:10] "aa" "bb" "cc" "dd" ...
##   ..$ x2 : int [1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
##   ..$ x3 : num [1:10] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3
##   ..$ x4 : num [1:10] 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
##   ..$ x5 : int [1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
##   ..$ x6 : int [1:10] 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5
##   ..$ x7 : num [1:10] 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
##   ..$ x8 : num [1:10] 0 0.301 0.477 0.602 0.699 ...
##   ..$ x9 : num [1:10] 1 8 27 64 125 216 343 512 729 1000
##   ..$ x10: logi [1:10] TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE ...

Packages

Additional libraries can be installed and loaded for use.

install.packages("scales")

library(scales)
xx <- data.frame(Values = 1:10)
xx$Rescaled <- rescale(x = xx$Values, to = c(1,30))
xx

##    Values  Rescaled
## 1       1  1.000000
## 2       2  4.222222
## 3       3  7.444444
## 4       4 10.666667
## 5       5 13.888889
## 6       6 17.111111
## 7       7 20.333333
## 8       8 23.555556
## 9       9 26.777778
## 10     10 30.000000

libraries can also be used without having to load them

scales::rescale(1:10, to = c(1,30))

##  [1]  1.000000  4.222222  7.444444 10.666667 13.888889 17.111111 20.333333 23.555556 26.777778 30.000000

Data Wrangling

R for Data Science - https://r4ds.had.co.nz/

xx <- data.frame(Group = c("X","X","Y","Y","Y","X","X","X","Y","Y"),
                 Data1 = 1:10, 
                 Data2 = seq(10, 100, by = 10))
xx$NewData1 <- xx$Data1 + xx$Data2
xx$NewData2 <- xx$Data1 * 1000
xx

##    Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2
## 1      X     1    10       11     1000
## 2      X     2    20       22     2000
## 3      Y     3    30       33     3000
## 4      Y     4    40       44     4000
## 5      Y     5    50       55     5000
## 6      X     6    60       66     6000
## 7      X     7    70       77     7000
## 8      X     8    80       88     8000
## 9      Y     9    90       99     9000
## 10     Y    10   100      110    10000

xx$Data1 < 5 # which are less than 5

##  [1]  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE

xx[xx$Data1 < 5,]

##   Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2
## 1     X     1    10       11     1000
## 2     X     2    20       22     2000
## 3     Y     3    30       33     3000
## 4     Y     4    40       44     4000

xx[xx$Group == "X", c("Group","Data2","NewData1")]

##   Group Data2 NewData1
## 1     X    10       11
## 2     X    20       22
## 6     X    60       66
## 7     X    70       77
## 8     X    80       88

Data wrangling with tidyverse and pipes (%>%)

library(tidyverse) # install.packages("tidyverse")
xx <- data.frame(Group = c("X","X","Y","Y","Y","Y","Y","X","X","X")) %>%
  mutate(Data1 = 1:10, 
         Data2 = seq(10, 100, by = 10),
         NewData1 = Data1 + Data2,
         NewData2 = Data1 * 1000)
xx

##    Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2
## 1      X     1    10       11     1000
## 2      X     2    20       22     2000
## 3      Y     3    30       33     3000
## 4      Y     4    40       44     4000
## 5      Y     5    50       55     5000
## 6      Y     6    60       66     6000
## 7      Y     7    70       77     7000
## 8      X     8    80       88     8000
## 9      X     9    90       99     9000
## 10     X    10   100      110    10000

filter(xx, Data1 < 5)

##   Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2
## 1     X     1    10       11     1000
## 2     X     2    20       22     2000
## 3     Y     3    30       33     3000
## 4     Y     4    40       44     4000

xx %>% filter(Data1 < 5)

##   Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2
## 1     X     1    10       11     1000
## 2     X     2    20       22     2000
## 3     Y     3    30       33     3000
## 4     Y     4    40       44     4000

xx %>% filter(Group == "X") %>% 
  select(Group, NewColName=Data2, NewData1)

##   Group NewColName NewData1
## 1     X         10       11
## 2     X         20       22
## 3     X         80       88
## 4     X         90       99
## 5     X        100      110

xs <- xx %>% 
  group_by(Group) %>% 
  summarise(Data2_mean = mean(Data2),
            Data2_sd = sd(Data2),
            NewData2_mean = mean(NewData2),
            NewData2_sd = sd(NewData2))
xs

## # A tibble: 2 × 5
##   Group Data2_mean Data2_sd NewData2_mean NewData2_sd
##   <chr>      <dbl>    <dbl>         <dbl>       <dbl>
## 1 X             60     41.8          6000       4183.
## 2 Y             50     15.8          5000       1581.

xx %>% left_join(xs, by = "Group")

##    Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2 Data2_mean Data2_sd NewData2_mean NewData2_sd
## 1      X     1    10       11     1000         60 41.83300          6000    4183.300
## 2      X     2    20       22     2000         60 41.83300          6000    4183.300
## 3      Y     3    30       33     3000         50 15.81139          5000    1581.139
## 4      Y     4    40       44     4000         50 15.81139          5000    1581.139
## 5      Y     5    50       55     5000         50 15.81139          5000    1581.139
## 6      Y     6    60       66     6000         50 15.81139          5000    1581.139
## 7      Y     7    70       77     7000         50 15.81139          5000    1581.139
## 8      X     8    80       88     8000         60 41.83300          6000    4183.300
## 9      X     9    90       99     9000         60 41.83300          6000    4183.300
## 10     X    10   100      110    10000         60 41.83300          6000    4183.300

Read/Write data

xx <- read.csv("data_r_tutorial.csv")
write.csv(xx, "data_r_tutorial.csv", row.names = F)

For excel sheets, the package readxl can be used to read in sheets of data.

library(readxl) # install.packages("readxl")
xx <- read_xlsx("data_r_tutorial.xlsx", sheet = "Data")

Tidy Data

Tutorial 1 - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidyr/vignettes/tidy-data.html

Tutorial 2 - https://r4ds.had.co.nz/tidy-data.html

yy <- xx %>%
  group_by(Name, Location) %>%
  summarise(Mean_DTF = round(mean(DTF),1)) %>% 
  arrange(Location)
yy

## # A tibble: 9 × 3
## # Groups:   Name [3]
##   Name          Location            Mean_DTF
##   <chr>         <chr>                  <dbl>
## 1 CDC Maxim AGL Jessore, Bangladesh     86.7
## 2 ILL 618 AGL   Jessore, Bangladesh     79.3
## 3 Laird AGL     Jessore, Bangladesh     76.8
## 4 CDC Maxim AGL Metaponto, Italy       134. 
## 5 ILL 618 AGL   Metaponto, Italy       138. 
## 6 Laird AGL     Metaponto, Italy       137. 
## 7 CDC Maxim AGL Saskatoon, Canada       52.5
## 8 ILL 618 AGL   Saskatoon, Canada       47  
## 9 Laird AGL     Saskatoon, Canada       56.8

yy <- yy %>% spread(key = Location, value = Mean_DTF)
yy

## # A tibble: 3 × 4
## # Groups:   Name [3]
##   Name          `Jessore, Bangladesh` `Metaponto, Italy` `Saskatoon, Canada`
##   <chr>                         <dbl>              <dbl>               <dbl>
## 1 CDC Maxim AGL                  86.7               134.                52.5
## 2 ILL 618 AGL                    79.3               138.                47  
## 3 Laird AGL                      76.8               137.                56.8

yy <- yy %>% gather(key = TraitName, value = Value, 2:4)
yy

## # A tibble: 9 × 3
## # Groups:   Name [3]
##   Name          TraitName           Value
##   <chr>         <chr>               <dbl>
## 1 CDC Maxim AGL Jessore, Bangladesh  86.7
## 2 ILL 618 AGL   Jessore, Bangladesh  79.3
## 3 Laird AGL     Jessore, Bangladesh  76.8
## 4 CDC Maxim AGL Metaponto, Italy    134. 
## 5 ILL 618 AGL   Metaponto, Italy    138. 
## 6 Laird AGL     Metaponto, Italy    137. 
## 7 CDC Maxim AGL Saskatoon, Canada    52.5
## 8 ILL 618 AGL   Saskatoon, Canada    47  
## 9 Laird AGL     Saskatoon, Canada    56.8

yy <- yy %>% spread(key = Name, value = Value)
yy

## # A tibble: 3 × 4
##   TraitName           `CDC Maxim AGL` `ILL 618 AGL` `Laird AGL`
##   <chr>                         <dbl>         <dbl>       <dbl>
## 1 Jessore, Bangladesh            86.7          79.3        76.8
## 2 Metaponto, Italy              134.          138.        137. 
## 3 Saskatoon, Canada              52.5          47          56.8

Base Plotting

We will start with some basic plotting using the base function plot()

Tutorial 1 - http://www.sthda.com/english/wiki/r-base-graphs

Tutorial 2 - https://bookdown.org/rdpeng/exdata/the-base-plotting-system-1.html

# A basic scatter plot
plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9)

# Adjust color and shape of the points
plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9, col = "darkred", pch = 0)

plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9, col = xd$x4, pch = xd$x4)

# Adjust plot type 
plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9, type = "line")

# Adjust linetype
plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9, type = "line", lty = 2)

# Plot lines and points
plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9, type = "both")

Now lets create some random and normally distributed data to make some more complicated plots

# 100 random uniformly distributed numbers ranging from 0 - 100
ru <- runif(100, min = 0, max = 100)
ru

##   [1] 24.4996336 26.5082840 61.5033961 85.4171557 34.0686598 60.7347131 20.8326458 17.3471581 57.1679621 29.9649144 70.7497644 56.4835261 58.8701721
##  [14] 73.3763592 87.1374311  8.8830902 79.2696842 66.2361464 44.9382551 87.9319825 31.4080248 71.5303286 77.8736934 29.2644970 14.9075759 45.0924844
##  [27] 55.4947603 55.9099105 48.9364350 91.3646160 65.8000641 53.6233449 74.5226332 48.6139243 72.8929779 49.8362322 14.1490307 53.5501717 64.1534244
##  [40] 14.5310953 78.2523297 99.3667029 62.1747904 16.3333229 35.4634724 45.0778310 57.5387506 66.9489405 33.0516636 94.6488758 86.0688762 18.9547489
##  [53] 46.9278359 13.7152314 73.1414506 28.6492820 11.2664575 84.8535835 24.9742161 38.5574953 52.6612106 82.7779981 14.7328706 30.7852912 64.1175163
##  [66] 38.9893455 36.7183514 58.4200958  0.7053642 77.3284411  1.7617040 88.9994407 46.9191379 22.5431557 77.0074082 62.6288584 26.1531212  1.0566451
##  [79] 66.6736275 58.2045214 99.5252229 18.7297874  9.2880647 49.1435808 38.8880415 81.0361900 67.9246328 39.4904605 35.2736258 14.4653195  0.2761710
##  [92] 19.1317649 67.9058692 93.3623464 60.3546075 12.0426525 39.5943518 45.6649603 39.6569357 82.0900318

plot(x = ru)

order(ru)

##   [1]  91  69  78  71  16  83  57  96  54  37  90  40  63  25  44   8  82  52  92   7  74   1  59  77   2  56  24  10  64  21  49   5  89  45  67  60
##  [37]  85  66  88  97  99  19  46  26  98  73  53  34  29  84  36  61  38  32  27  28  12   9  47  80  68  13  95   6   3  43  76  65  39  31  18  79
##  [73]  48  93  87  11  22  35  55  14  33  75  70  23  41  17  86 100  62  58   4  51  15  20  72  30  94  50  42  81

ru<- ru[order(ru)]
ru

##   [1]  0.2761710  0.7053642  1.0566451  1.7617040  8.8830902  9.2880647 11.2664575 12.0426525 13.7152314 14.1490307 14.4653195 14.5310953 14.7328706
##  [14] 14.9075759 16.3333229 17.3471581 18.7297874 18.9547489 19.1317649 20.8326458 22.5431557 24.4996336 24.9742161 26.1531212 26.5082840 28.6492820
##  [27] 29.2644970 29.9649144 30.7852912 31.4080248 33.0516636 34.0686598 35.2736258 35.4634724 36.7183514 38.5574953 38.8880415 38.9893455 39.4904605
##  [40] 39.5943518 39.6569357 44.9382551 45.0778310 45.0924844 45.6649603 46.9191379 46.9278359 48.6139243 48.9364350 49.1435808 49.8362322 52.6612106
##  [53] 53.5501717 53.6233449 55.4947603 55.9099105 56.4835261 57.1679621 57.5387506 58.2045214 58.4200958 58.8701721 60.3546075 60.7347131 61.5033961
##  [66] 62.1747904 62.6288584 64.1175163 64.1534244 65.8000641 66.2361464 66.6736275 66.9489405 67.9058692 67.9246328 70.7497644 71.5303286 72.8929779
##  [79] 73.1414506 73.3763592 74.5226332 77.0074082 77.3284411 77.8736934 78.2523297 79.2696842 81.0361900 82.0900318 82.7779981 84.8535835 85.4171557
##  [92] 86.0688762 87.1374311 87.9319825 88.9994407 91.3646160 93.3623464 94.6488758 99.3667029 99.5252229

plot(x = ru)

# 100 normally distributed numbers with a mean of 50 and sd of 10
nd <- rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 10)
nd

##   [1] 59.52128 71.42270 36.36559 41.67611 33.62220 61.29299 55.45971 56.10306 48.11912 46.60214 57.33235 54.68987 65.22907 40.19788 52.83470 71.76408
##  [17] 37.72653 37.99600 59.55390 48.18922 46.13670 55.40158 64.65877 28.41800 48.15028 48.35555 44.05597 50.39621 46.54933 59.45524 72.67715 47.85723
##  [33] 43.65979 58.01536 38.38484 43.31185 65.11761 66.47883 49.48311 54.96389 63.75717 62.90048 50.31159 44.01812 39.02180 47.13129 30.37971 69.02543
##  [49] 44.25921 71.97243 51.53038 50.94651 53.18449 51.57964 47.45808 51.62141 58.67907 43.75914 41.68277 54.06480 50.23182 64.20096 51.84690 50.93341
##  [65] 45.64745 62.22755 60.58226 36.60922 42.14360 52.28929 40.96815 66.13460 56.16598 53.18180 41.11570 53.62998 48.49444 44.16584 56.57339 63.52759
##  [81] 53.01779 55.79790 53.72948 57.85351 74.05366 39.87119 45.84498 56.27285 53.28045 32.32108 54.59867 42.71340 56.81212 43.33666 64.32827 36.00114
##  [97] 59.71100 38.60203 55.57002 38.78649

nd <- nd[order(nd)]
nd

##   [1] 28.41800 30.37971 32.32108 33.62220 36.00114 36.36559 36.60922 37.72653 37.99600 38.38484 38.60203 38.78649 39.02180 39.87119 40.19788 40.96815
##  [17] 41.11570 41.67611 41.68277 42.14360 42.71340 43.31185 43.33666 43.65979 43.75914 44.01812 44.05597 44.16584 44.25921 45.64745 45.84498 46.13670
##  [33] 46.54933 46.60214 47.13129 47.45808 47.85723 48.11912 48.15028 48.18922 48.35555 48.49444 49.48311 50.23182 50.31159 50.39621 50.93341 50.94651
##  [49] 51.53038 51.57964 51.62141 51.84690 52.28929 52.83470 53.01779 53.18180 53.18449 53.28045 53.62998 53.72948 54.06480 54.59867 54.68987 54.96389
##  [65] 55.40158 55.45971 55.57002 55.79790 56.10306 56.16598 56.27285 56.57339 56.81212 57.33235 57.85351 58.01536 58.67907 59.45524 59.52128 59.55390
##  [81] 59.71100 60.58226 61.29299 62.22755 62.90048 63.52759 63.75717 64.20096 64.32827 64.65877 65.11761 65.22907 66.13460 66.47883 69.02543 71.42270
##  [97] 71.76408 71.97243 72.67715 74.05366

plot(x = nd)

hist(x = nd)

hist(nd, breaks = 20, col = "darkgreen")

plot(x = density(nd))

boxplot(x = nd)

boxplot(x = nd, horizontal = T)

ggplot2

Lets be honest, the base plots are ugly! The ggplot2 package gives the user to create a better, more visually appealing plots. Additional packages such as ggbeeswarm and ggrepel also contain useful functions to add to the functionality of ggplot2.

ggplot2 - https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/

Tutorial 1 - http://r-statistics.co/ggplot2-Tutorial-With-R.html

Tutorial 2 - https://www.statsandr.com/blog/graphics-in-r-with-ggplot2/

The R Graph Gallery - https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/ggplot2-package.html

library(ggplot2)
mp <- ggplot(xd, aes(x = x8, y = x9))
mp + geom_point()

mp + geom_point(aes(color = x3, shape = x3), size = 4)

mp + geom_line(size = 2)

mp + geom_line(aes(color = x3), size = 2)

mp + geom_smooth(method = "loess")

mp + geom_smooth(method = "lm")

xx <- data.frame(data = c(rnorm(50, mean = 40, sd = 10),
                          rnorm(50, mean = 60, sd = 5)),
                 group = factor(rep(1:2, each = 50)),
                 label = c("Label1", rep(NA, 49), "Label2", rep(NA, 49)))
mp <- ggplot(xx, aes(x = data, fill = group))
mp + geom_histogram(color = "black")

mp + geom_histogram(color = "black", position = "dodge")

mp1 <- mp + geom_histogram(color = "black") + facet_grid(group~.)
mp1

mp + geom_density(alpha = 0.5)

mp <- ggplot(xx, aes(x = group, y = data, fill = group))
mp + geom_boxplot(color = "black")

mp + geom_boxplot() + geom_point()

mp + geom_violin() + geom_boxplot(width = 0.1, fill = "white")

library(ggbeeswarm)
mp + geom_quasirandom()

mp + geom_quasirandom(aes(shape = group))

mp2 <- mp + geom_violin() + 
  geom_boxplot(width = 0.1, fill = "white") +
  geom_beeswarm(alpha = 0.5)
library(ggrepel)
mp2 + geom_text_repel(aes(label = label), nudge_x = 0.4)

library(ggpubr)
ggarrange(mp1, mp2, ncol = 2, widths = c(2,1),
          common.legend = T, legend = "bottom")

Statistics

Handbook of Biological Statistics - http://biostathandbook.com/

R Companion for ^ - https://rcompanion.org/rcompanion/a_02.html

# Prep data
lev_Loc  <- c("Saskatoon, Canada", "Jessore, Bangladesh", "Metaponto, Italy")
lev_Name <- c("ILL 618 AGL", "CDC Maxim AGL", "Laird AGL")
dd <- read_xlsx("data_r_tutorial.xlsx", sheet = "Data") %>%
  mutate(Location = factor(Location, levels = lev_Loc),
         Name = factor(Name, levels = lev_Name))
xx <- dd %>%
  group_by(Name, Location) %>%
  summarise(Mean_DTF = mean(DTF))
xx %>% spread(Location, Mean_DTF)

## # A tibble: 3 × 4
## # Groups:   Name [3]
##   Name          `Saskatoon, Canada` `Jessore, Bangladesh` `Metaponto, Italy`
##   <fct>                       <dbl>                 <dbl>              <dbl>
## 1 ILL 618 AGL                  47                    79.3               138.
## 2 CDC Maxim AGL                52.5                  86.7               134.
## 3 Laird AGL                    56.8                  76.8               137.

# Plot
mp1 <- ggplot(dd, aes(x = Location, y = DTF, color = Name, shape = Name)) +
  geom_point(size = 2, alpha = 0.7, position = position_dodge(width=0.5))
mp2 <- ggplot(xx, aes(x = Location, y = Mean_DTF, 
                      color = Name, group = Name, shape = Name)) +
  geom_point(size = 2.5, alpha = 0.7) + 
  geom_line(size = 1, alpha = 0.7) +
  theme(legend.position = "top")
ggarrange(mp1, mp2, ncol = 2, common.legend = T, legend = "top")

From first glace, it is clear there are differences between genotypes, locations, and genotype x environment (GxE) interactions. Now let’s do a few statistical tests.

summary(aov(DTF ~ Name * Location, data = dd))

##               Df Sum Sq Mean Sq  F value   Pr(>F)    
## Name           2     88      44    3.476   0.0395 *  
## Location       2  65863   32931 2598.336  < 2e-16 ***
## Name:Location  4    560     140   11.044 2.52e-06 ***
## Residuals     45    570      13                      
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

As expected, an ANOVA shows statistical significance for genotype (p-value = 0.0395), Location (p-value < 2e-16) and GxE interactions (p-value < 2.52e-06). However, all this tells us is that one genotype is different from the rest, one location is different from the others and that there is GxE interactions. If we want to be more specific, would need to do some multiple comparison tests.

If we only have two things to compare, we could do a t-test.

xx <- dd %>% 
  filter(Location %in% c("Saskatoon, Canada", "Jessore, Bangladesh")) %>%
  spread(Location, DTF)
t.test(x = xx$`Saskatoon, Canada`, y = xx$`Jessore, Bangladesh`)

## 
##  Welch Two Sample t-test
## 
## data:  xx$`Saskatoon, Canada` and xx$`Jessore, Bangladesh`
## t = -17.521, df = 32.701, p-value < 2.2e-16
## alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
##  -32.18265 -25.48402
## sample estimates:
## mean of x mean of y 
##  52.11111  80.94444

DTF in Saskatoon, Canada is significantly different (p-value < 2.2e-16) from DTF in Jessore, Bangladesh.

xx <- dd %>% 
  filter(Name %in% c("ILL 618 AGL", "Laird AGL"),
         Location == "Metaponto, Italy") %>%
  spread(Name, DTF)
t.test(x = xx$`ILL 618 AGL`, y = xx$`Laird AGL`)

## 
##  Welch Two Sample t-test
## 
## data:  xx$`ILL 618 AGL` and xx$`Laird AGL`
## t = 0.38008, df = 8.0564, p-value = 0.7137
## alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
##  -5.059739  7.059739
## sample estimates:
## mean of x mean of y 
##  137.8333  136.8333

DTF between ILL 618 AGL and Laird AGL are not significantly different (p-value = 0.7137) in Metaponto, Italy.

pch Plot

xx <- data.frame(x = rep(1:6, times = 5, length.out = 26),
                 y = rep(5:1, each = 6, length.out = 26),
                 pch = 0:25)
mp <- ggplot(xx, aes(x = x, y = y, shape = as.factor(pch))) +
  geom_point(color = "darkred", fill = "darkblue", size = 5) +
  geom_text(aes(label = pch), nudge_x = -0.25) +
  scale_shape_manual(values = xx$pch) +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = 6:1) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 6:1) +
  theme_void() +
  theme(legend.position = "none",
        plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5),
        plot.subtitle = element_text(hjust = 0.5),
        axis.text = element_blank(),
        axis.ticks = element_blank()) +
  labs(title = "Plot symbols in R (pch)",
       subtitle = "color = \"darkred\", fill = \"darkblue\"",
       x = NULL, y = NULL)
ggsave("pch.png", mp, width = 4.5, height = 3, bg = "white")

R Markdown

Tutorials on how to create an R markdown document like this one can be found here:

R Tutorial

An introduction to R

R Tutorial

Introduction

Download

Other Useful Tutorials

Calculator

Functions

Custom Functions

for loops and if else statements

Objects

A string…

A matrix…

A data frame…

A list…

Selecting Data

regexpr

Data Formats

Packages

Data Wrangling

Read/Write data

Tidy Data

Base Plotting

ggplot2

Statistics

pch Plot

R Markdown

`for` loops and `if` `else` statements